OtherSide Entertainment have published the next episode in their series of Underworld Ascendant dev diary videos. If the first video was about the game's basic design principles then this one goes into detail about the specifics of their implementation. The video features all the emergent gameplay tricks we've heard about, but it's cool to see them in action in what appears to be OtherSide's latest internal build, which is starting to look decent. They've also released an updated teaser trailer featuring some of the same new snippets of gameplay footage.

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Simultaneously with this release, a number of websites have published their previews of Ascendant from PAX East. Among these are Game Informer, GameSpace, and Gamereactor who did an interview with Paul Neurath. But the highlight here is the release of a ten minute preview of the game's tutorial level - the homage to Ultima Underworld's first level mentioned in last month's development update.

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Still a bit janky, but it's hard to go wrong with that Thief-inspired gameplay and ambience. Hopefully it won't be long before we get our hands on this build too.